Comparative analysis of drug supply and inventory management methods literature review

Abstract

Nowadays, scientific researches attribute a crucial importance to hospital sector. The improvement of this sector is considered by the literature as strongly depending on well mastered hospital supply chain, more exactly drug supply chain. Hence, several research studies have worked on the management of drug supply chain by offering diverse approaches and management models. In this paper, we focus on stochastic drug supply chain and our goal is to present a literature review about the drug supply chain and drug supply and inventory management methods, in order to establish a comparative analysis of the methods and approaches recently proposed by various research projects to identify the most appropriate one.